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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Your memory serves you well. In my time in Huddersfield during the 70s, platform 1 was mainly used for the stabling of parcels stock.
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    Llanfairpwl LPG - Llandudno Junction LLJ

    Just out of interest - how do you intend to get your 29 senior citizens back to Llanfair PG? A coach for an outward and return trip should be cheaper.
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    TPE Nova 1s

    Thank you.
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    TPE Nova 1s

    We shall shortly be travelling from Manchester to Newcastle c/o Transpennine Express on a Cl.801. Can anyone tell me which carriage is the unreserved one. Thank you.
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    Oddball Journeys (Trivia)

    Not for nothing was Central Trains known as the Yarmouth to Barmouth Railway! I once travelled from Heckington to Crewe on a through Skegness-Manchester Airport service using a Cl..153 dogbox. But only once!
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    Halifax Train allocations in the 1950s

    Basically, before dieselisation in 1962, the Liverpool-Manchester- Halifax- Bradford Exchange- Leeds Central services were mainly portion-worked, with division and joining at Low Moor. They were roughly hourly in each direction, with some gaps. The main train[Liverpool-Manchester-Bradford] was...
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    Avanti seat shuffle.

    Mrs W travels occasionally on the 0445 Holyhead to London Euston. This is a 5-car set, coupled at Crewe with another from Blackpool North. She books on the Avanti website and is usually assigned a seat in coach P, so I'd assumed coaches A-J is the set from Blackpool and K-L from Holyhead...
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Nessun Dorma Japanese Camper Van
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    Changes to North Wales services from the May 2026 timetable

    I do hope not - the 6 or so minute challenge from arriving at platform 4 approx x50 from North Wales to leaving at platform 1 at x56 for Crewe, over the footbridge and down platform 3B - is quite daunting for the not-so-fleet-of-foot with a heavy suitcase! Far less stress to have the...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Don't apologise! That picture brought back memories of travelling on early BR Derby Lightweight dmus from Bradford Exchange to Wakefield Westgate. Down the hill from Drighlington then weave under the LNWR to Dewsbury Central! Happy days!
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    propaganda a haughty goose. pandemonium a reed organ played by cute bears.
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    You know you’re getting older when……

    I think its a mistake but I got a text offering me a flu jab last week, and another one this week [I had accepted last week's] Or do they think I'm so decrepit I need two? :)
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    Rhyl-Wrexham T51

    The new T51 service is now on the TrawsCymru website:- https://traws.cymru/en/services/ACYM/T51?date=2025-09-29&direction=outbound
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    Rhyl-Wrexham T51

    D Do they still? They are not advertised as such, and with Rhyl-Denbigh now being every 30 mins, Denbigh-Ruthin hourly and the Ruthin-Wrexham section every 2 hours, its difficult to see which buses go through!
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    Rhyl-Wrexham T51

    Apparently Ken Skates announced yesterday at the Eisteddford at Wrexham that the Rhyl-Wrexham route will join the TrawsCymru network at the end of September. This has been in the planning stage for some time. Service T51 will replace the exisitng 51/X51 services, with the intention of...
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    You know you’re getting older when……

    When I look to see who's on "Celebrity Pointless" and realise I don't recognise any one of the eight names.
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    Bradley Chord:- for how long was it disused?

    Not only the Bradford-Stockports, but there was also an almost hourly dmu service from Bradford Exchange to Huddersfield via Halifax, with some extending to Penistone, running until about the same time.
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    Clergy and railways.

    They were indeed. They transformed travel between Lancashire & Yorkshire when introduced, but unfortunately by the early 1970s when I observed them[and rode in them], were becoming more unreliable.
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    Stations with modernised Platform Lights, Clocks and other modern items that didn't survive?

    Sheffield Victoria had some "modern" lighting and waiting rooms.
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    Clergy and railways.

    Someone once said the rural C of E was rather like the GWR in pre-Beeching days. The infrastructure was there, but crumbling, and an enthusiastic faithful staff provided a regular service to each village no matter how small, day in and day out in all weathers, regardless of any takers. I was...

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